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Drive offers brutal thrills marred by bad dialog

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Danish filmmaker Nicholas Winding Refn’s latest film Drive stars Ryan Gosling as the brooding hero and Carey Mulligan as his token damsel in distress. Visually stunning, this noir-style thriller gets bogged down with weak dialogue, but once the action picks up it is a thrilling ride that fans of gory action movies are sure to love.

Bionic powerful but imperfect

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It’s been nine long months since the world has gotten the first glimpse at what Motorola and Verizon have called the future of mobile computing. Now, the long-awaited Droid Bionic has finally been released and it’s time to find out if the phone lives up to the hype it’s created over the past few months.

Lady A woos country fans

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Lady Antebellum’s third studio album Own the Night, released Sept. 13, follows in the footsteps of the band’s other powerful albums and provides the striking emotion now expected of the country trio.

Hallyu Wave breaks in Japan

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This past year marked a huge turning point for South Korean entertainment as its musicians turn their sights on the lucrative Japanese market and overseas expansion. The influx of Korean media first began in Japan a few years ago with the introduction of TV dramas and has been dubbed the Hallyu Wave.

Child delivers angelic vibes

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On Labor Day, while storms escalated in the Atlanta area and brought a dismal, overcast gloom to the city, Active Child lifted the mood of the fans at Atlanta’s music venue The Earl by masterfully presenting their angelic, orchestral music.

The Debt shows strong performances

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The years of the Jewish Holocaust are known all around the world as a time of horror and supreme inhumanity. There is no denying this. The amount of lives brutally ripped apart by the Nazi cult numbered in the millions. The entire world witnessed the suffering of a nation, and John Madden’s new espionage film The Debt, which opened last Wednesday, reveals that in no way did the pain end with the winning of the war.

Legendary has strong chemistry

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Those present for the Almost Legendary show Friday, Sept. 3, at The Masquerade jumped, danced and sweated their way through roughly 35 minutes of energetic pop music. While the crowd would have fit twice over into a Howie physics lecture hall, they made up for their lack of numbers by matching the band’s enthusiasm for every note. Legendary was celebrating the release of its first EP, titled Bright Lights.

Shark Night bites

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In theory, director David R. Ellis’ Shark Night 3D should serve as an appropriately campy conclusion to this summer’s line of box-office hits—with the Discovery Channel’s annual Shark Week come and gone, this shark-infused thriller makes promises of even grittier displays of violence, viscera and blood-red water in the spirit of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws. We are instead provided with an unpleasantly tacky concoction of shock and awe that scrapes for the title of “B-movie.”

Dragon*Con delights escapists of every stripe

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This year the Con ran from Friday Sept. 2 to Labor Day, and was spread across five hotels. The Con’s events were divided into forty different “Fan Tracks,” or programming groups focused on diverse interests like alternate history, British sci-fi media, young adult literature, Star Wars and writing workshops. Each of these tracks averaged ten to 12 events each day including readings, fan discussions, panels and screenings.

Red Bull Soundclash

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Ludacris and Neon Trees performed on opposite stages to a single audience, facing each other for an unusual clash of styles, sounds and creativity that takes “concert” to a whole new level.
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